Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
Wikenigma - an Encyclopedia of the Unknown
Wikenigma - an Encyclopaedia of Unknowns
Wikenigma - an Encyclopaedia of the Unknown

Coronal heating problem

The Sun's corona is millions of degrees Kelvin hotter than the main body of the Sun (reaching temperatures of up to 10 MK). A number of possible mechanisms have been proposed to explain why. They include: